Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: V. The Arts | | Influence of Music | | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| | From “King Henry Eighth,” Act III. Sc. 1. |
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ORPHEUS, with his lute, made trees, | |
| And the mountain-tops that freeze, | |
| Bow themselves when he did sing; | |
| To his music plants and flowers | |
| Ever sprung, as sun and showers | 5 |
| There had made a lasting Spring. | |
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| Every thing that heard him play, | |
| Even the billows of the sea, | |
| Hung their heads, and then lay by. | |
| In sweet music is such art, | 10 |
| Killing care, and grief of heart— | |
| Fall asleep, or, hearing, die! | | | |
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